Eid Al Fitr

This is the celebration that marks the end of the month of Ramadan. Its like you have purified youself by restricting from all bad things and starting a new life style to improve onself from all bad habbits.  This day men  women and children  attend the Eid prayer.  It is usually conducted in open grounds.  Muslims wear new clothes this day looking their very best to stand in front of Allah asking him to accept the good deeds they have done in the entire month of Ramadan and to thank him.  Children ofcourse look forward for this day coz starting from the mosque people bring basket full of sweets cakes  juices etc which they distribute among children.  Then they go to their grandparents house for the morning breakfast.  Elders give the children 'Eidiya' which means 'Eid gift' in the form of money, toys or gifts.  It is a way of thanking them for fasting and encouraging them to do more in the forthcomming years .  Talking of Ediya I remeber the enthusiasm we had to visit all our friends and relatives to collect money from each and everyone.  At the end of the day we sit and count to see if anyone has got more than us and there used to be fights coz our elder brothers or sisters come behind us to borrow our money or to negociate. After the holidays we go to the toy stores to spend that money on whatever we like. We go visiting our friends , relatives  neighbours or have a getogather in a park or hotel etc.The families who give us the highest amount of Eidiya are noted and parents are forced to visit that house every year for Eid.  In India they prepare special sweets like sevayya or semiya as called in the south. The sweet tooth people enjoy the best of their lives in these three days of Eid .  Then we prepare biryani which again is a famous dish prepared for lunch.  The three days of Eid are spend in meeting  greeting and rejoicing in such a way that when we  get back to our normal life we are happy that we have spend the best of our days with our family and friends or even met people whom you havent met for a long time..